Take-down firearm.



W. BENNETT.

TAKE-DOWN FIREARM. APPLICATION FILED APR. 25, 1910,

961,576B Patented June 14,1910.

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UNITED sTATEsPATENT QFFlCE.

' WINCHESTER BENNETT, 0E NEW HAVEN, coNN oTIcUT, ASSIGNOR To WINCHESTER REPEATIN'G ARMS 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTIUUT, A CORPORATION.

TAKE-DOWN FIREARM.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented June 14., 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVINoHESTER BEN- NETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Take-Down Firearms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l is a broken view in Vertical longitudinal section of a take-down gun 0on structed in accordance with my invention Fig. 2 is a broken View in vertical section of the framemember of the gun. Fig. 3' isa corresponding view of the tang-member of the gun.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of take-down guns in which the gun-frame and tang are interlocked and held in their interlocked relations by means of a locking-dog, the object being to locate in the gun itself, a simple and convenient means for operating the dog preparatory to taking the gun down.

WVith these ends in view my invention consists in a take-down gun having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I form an operating finger 2 at the rear end of the trigger 3, which is mounted upon a pivot 4, in the tang 5, the said trigger being formed with an integral sear 6, and the tang 5 being sufficiently cut away at the rear of the trigger at the point 7 to permit a swinging movement to the rear on the part of the trigger, over and above what is required to move the sear 6 for releasing the hammer, which is not shown. The trigger is provided with a helical spring 8, located forward of its pivot 4, and acting to engage the sear 6 with the hammer. The said finger 2 at the rear end of the trigger, coacts with the under face of the forward end of a locking-dog 9 mounted upon a horizontal pivot 10 in the upper portion of the tang 5, the rear end of the said dog being formed with a square face and thus adapted to engage with the inner end of an abutment screw 11 mounted in an inclined position in a threaded screw-hole 12 in the rear end of the gun-frame 13. A helical spring 14 entering a socket 15 in the under face of the rear end of the dog 9, exerts a constant effort to maintain the rear end of the dog 9 in engagement with the inner end of the abutment screw 11, the lower end of said spring being inserted into a socket 16 in the tang 5. At its forward end the tang 5 is provided with a tenon 17 adapted to enter a mortise 18 in the forward wall 19 of the gun-frame 13 the rear end of which is formed with a rearwardly projecting tenon 20 adapted to enter a mortise 21 in the upper corner of the tang 5.

The operating-finger 2 of the trigger 3 is arranged in such spaced relation to the lower face of the forward end of the locking-dog 9, that the said finger will not make contact with the dog in the ordinary operation of the trigger, but only when the trigger is by special intention and efi'ort pulled rearward to such an extent that the finger 2 lifts the forward end of the dog 9 so as to depress the rear end thereof sufficiently to clear it from the inner end of the abutment screw 11, after which the tang 5 and the frame 13 may be drawn longitudinally apart and the gun taken down. The gun-barrel 22 is permanently attached to the gun-frame 13, and the butt-stock 23 is permanently attached to the tang 5. A stop-pin 24, mounted in the tang below the forward end of the dog 9, limits the turning movement thereof under the influence of the spring 14 when the gun is taken down as shown in Fig. 3.

To put the gun together, the tang 5 and gun-frame 13 are positioned so as to register the tenon 17 with the mortise 18, and the tenon 20 with the mortise 21, these several features being arranged parallel with the longitudinal axis of the gun as shown. The said tang and frame are now moved longitudinally toward each other so as to enter the respective tenons into the respective mortises, As the parts go together the cam-surface 25 of the gun-frame 13 is crowded down upon the rear upper corner of the dog 9 in entering the tenon 20 into the mortise 21 whereby the rear end of the said dog is depressed. Just as shown, however, as the parts have gone together, so to speak, the spring 14 asserts itself and lifts the rear end of the dog 9 up in front of the inner end of the abutment-screw 11. From this moment the dog 9 blocks the separation of the tang and gun-frame and acts as a key or look for holding them together, which it will do until the trigger 3 is operated so as to swing the dog 9 upon its pivot 10 against the tension of the spring 14 so as to clear the rear end of the dog from the said screw 11, after which the tang and gun-frame may be drawn apart and the gun taken down.

I claim 1. In a take-down gun, the combination with the tang and frame thereof, the said tang and frame being provided with tenons and mortises by means of which they are interlocked, of a locking-dog located within the gun, and a trigger adapted by an excess of movement to coact with the dog to move it out of its locking position to permit the gun to be taken down.

2. In a take-down gun, the combination with the frame and tang thereof, the said frame and tang being provided with tenons and mortises by means of which they are interlocked by their longitudinal movement with respect to each other, of an abutment screw mounted in the said frame at the rear end thereof, and a spring-actuated lockingdog mounted in the tang and adapted at its rear end to be engaged with the inner end of the said screw.

3. In a take-down gun, the combination with the frame and tang thereof, the said frame and tang being provided with tenons and mortises by means of which they are interlocked by their longitudinal'movement with respect to each other, of an abutment screw'mounted in the said frame at the rear end thereof, a spring-actuated locking-dog pivotally mounted in the same tang and adapted at its rear end to be engaged with the inner end of the said screw, and a trigger mounted in the tang and adapted atits rear end to coact with the forward end of the said dog for the operation of the same when the trigger has excess of movement imparted to it, the trigger and dog being normally in spaced relations to each other so that the ordinary operation of the trigger does not disturb the dog.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WINCHESTER BENNETT.

Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER, THOMAS C. JOHNSON. 

